Reflections about the judicial congestion in the administrative Colombian courts

The jurisdiction of the contentious administrative is, nowadays congested, due to the fact that number of suits set by the users is greater than the operative capacity of the system. Courts for decongestion and the obligatory conciliation are not enough for solving the problem.

To solve the congestion problem, it is necessary to take measures like: to create an additional administrative  charge - an auxiliary lawyer for the most congestive administrative courts; to distribute suits more fairly; to reduce the public attention time; to create specialist  judges for constitutional actions; to limit the number of appeals and consultation; to install a judicial tariff for big quantities suits; to establish in indemnity  repair actions the requirement  of previous  direct petition  to the administrative agency involved in the case; to introduce a summary procedure for less quantities affaires; to extend the sentence effects to similar cases; to confer jurisdictional  faculties to secretaries, and to impose since the beginning  of the procedures that the claimants lawyers show all the evidence they have in possession.